divided, the vice president votes in affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. [cheering] >> republicans say voters will get their revenge in november after democrats push through $739 billion spending bill. they're selling it as inflation reduction act. it is packed with increased taxes for americans. you're watching "fox and friends first" on monday morning, i'm ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. the white house is responding with more spending as new abc poll finds 59% of americans think the economy is heading in the wrong direction. democratss and the media still celebrating this. >> he is getting credit for

almost nothing, joe biden is on a roll legislatively and on the national security front. >> todd: alexandria hoff live from washington with the latest. >> alexandria: even senator bernie sanders is questioning the name saying will have minimal impact. senate majority leader chuck chuck schumer disagrees. >> i would put in one word, persistence. >> alexandria: he calls it one of the defining feats of the 21st century. the climate healthcare and tax focus bill included 16 hours of vote-arama. democratss spent a year in negotiation, ending up with narrower adaptation of the build back better bill, inflation

reduction act, they call it. 369 billion to climate, minimum tax raising $313 billion in 10 years, democrats expect to add 124 billion by bolstering i.r.s. tax inforcements. democratss -- government work for families again and this is what this bill does, period. republicans say the end of the sentence is not entirely true there. daniels stated this, democrats will pay the price in november for raising taxes on families during recession. john kennedy called the bill's key negotiator out by name. >> joe-flation, as some people call it, will refer to joe manchin, not president biden.

it takes a special kind of stupid to raise taxes during both a recession and inflation. >> alexandria: the bill heads to the house, majority is all that is needed to pass. >> ashley: earlier kentucky congressman james comer says gas lighting americans by naming the bill the inflation reduction act. >> the democratss are banking political future this fall in the hope america is financially illiterate. i don't think they are, most americans realize if the government spends more money and spends recklessly and unnecessarily, that leads to more inflation. the sheer nature of the bill by name inflation reduction is being untruthful to the american people and i think the american people get it. the government cannot continue to spend money and waste money and expect for inflation to go

down. the reverse is going to happen. >> ashley: on wednesday federal reserve is expected to increase interest rates in attempt to combat the raging inflation rates. >> todd: chris senator coons dodging whether he recommend biden top the democratic ticket again. listen. >> i'm hopeful president biden will run again, if he does, i will support him. >> are you encouraging him to run again? >> i'm encouraging him to focus on what is in front of us. >> todd: very telling answer. richard bloomenthal, sidestepping the bid. >> my focus is totally on this november, partly because i am running for re-election and i think this november will determine how successful

president biden is in the next two years and how strong he would be as a candidate. >> todd: despite the nonanswer, stacey abrams is vowing to support president biden if he runs for a second term. here is jason. >> jason: albatross to the democrats winning elections, few want to be in their presence, because members of congress want to win their election. bigger problem for the democrats, their solutions for the country will not solve the problems we face. they lurched and rely on racism, sexism and statism. diversity in government can be good and important for community engagement, when they become the overriding theme rather than

competence it punishes the accomplished and discredits the appointed, all for the sake of diversity. >> todd: top democrats are refusing to publicly endorse a biden re-election bid in 2024. mayor eric adams lashing out after a second bus of illegal immigrants arrive in new york city. we saw midnight migrant flights in the westchester suburbs. the flights were uncovered. plus -- >> hunter under federal investigation, charges could be coming any time. this is a real problem for the bidens, could he decide not to run fere-election given his son? >> ashley: it is a big problem for the president, far cry from the media coverup in 2022. we'll have more on this, you don't want to miss it. ♪

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>> ashley: mayor eric adams is furious with greg abbott after a second bus of illegal immigrants arrives in new york city.

>> todd: governor abbott plans to send more. marianne has the story. >> marianne: mayor eric adams is lashing out at texas governor greg abbott for sending them. >> when you think what the governor is doing, the governor of texas, after months of traveling across -- on the bus with no direction to come here to new york. >> marianne: and while texas deals with thousands of illegal crossings daily mayor adams is asking for federal help to deal with a small bus load. he says, governor abbott is manufacturing a crisis. mayor adams blaming exploding crime in his city for the reason migrants are choosing not to come, saying we were led to believe 40 people should be on

the bus, only 14 got off because of the fear something was going to happen to us if they came to the location, people got off earlier. governor abbott will send more migrants. >> building the wall, remain in mexico policy, as well as ending catch and release, biden eliminated those things and now we have chaos. that has caused texas to have to step up and take unprecedented action. todd, ashley. >> ashley: we'll bring in rob astoreino, rob, thanks for being with us. pop the numbers up, migrant crossings from 2019 to 2022, the ones we know about. you heard in marianne's story,

mayor eric adams is complaining about two buses that are coming in, one of them, only 14 people got off, which is concerning, where did the rest of those people go? they are undocumented, we have no idea where they are. now he's saying this is a power grab by the texas governor wanting a photo op. what do you think? >> good morning, todd and ashley. so funny adams would complain about a bus load when i've been complaining and sounding the alarm since last august of plane loads coming on daily basis to westchester county airport and the hudson valley, which is run by the state of new york and these planes have been coming in on a nightly basis and about 150 each night. they get on buses and go to wherever, including new york city and we've known this, they

have gone to westchester, going into schools and for the purpose of immigration, these kids, uncompanied adults are 18, 19 and 20 year olds, they are adults, but considered minors as they go into our schools. we've known for for a long time. i've been asking president biden and governor hochul information about where they are being placed. they are going to new york city and have been for the last year, where is mayor adams and before him, de blasio, this is affecting local schools and communities, our healthcare system. this is a public safety issue. we don't know who is coming in and we get no answer. it is pretty hypocritical of mayor adams and governor of dc when we get no response. >> todd: why is the left okay with the migrant flights to westchester, which i should

point out is not necessarily republican bashing, probably more republicans than new york city, not like you are in the middle of texas, it is a left leaning area. why are they okay with buses to westchester, but not new york city. >> it is like the ostrich in the sand, no problem. i raised this, i was called a racist and hater because i wanted basic questions answered and we got none. now it is affecting mayor adams, they are going into homeless shelters and before he could turn his head and pretend it was not happening. he is making our case, making governor abbott's case and governor desantis case, we are all affected by open border and getting rid of remain in mengs co has been a disastrous policy.

this is a catastrophe caused by president biden. we are dealing with it here in new york. >> ashley: the pentagon denied dc mayor muriel bowser to help with influx of the migrants. they said we determine providing support would negatively impact readiness of the d.c.g.they are being denied help and these are sanctuary cities, they have been pushing for this, but now there is a change of heart, what do you think of this? >> it is complete hypocrisy, it is a sanctuary city, a magnet to go. we don't need national guard in new york, we need national guard and army on the border to protect the border and seal the

border and we wouldn't be having these problems in the first place. >> ashley: thank you for your take early on monday morning, we appreciate it. >> todd: thanks, rob. >> ashley: majority of americans think the economy is heading in the wrong direction. connecticut congressional candidate george logan will explain why the gop has a better plan for americans. >> todd: and the l.a. times is urging president biden to declare a climate emergency, wail until you hear this. ♪ ♪♪ my relationship with my credit cards wasn't good. i got into debt in college and, no matter how much i paid, it followed me everywhere. between the high interest, the fees... i felt trapped. debt, debt, debt. so i broke up with my credit card debt and consolidated it

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the country. early this morning widespread, in the 70s and 80s and humidity off to the west. it was cooler. that cold front is typical when you see this moisture and that cold front, heavy rain and another round of storms moving across northern illinois, across wisconsin to chicago area, they have seen a ton of rainfall in the last 24 hours. more rain is on the way. another inch or two inches in these locations as the system moves across the great lakes region. continue to think about hot and sticky temperatures. today 86 in new york city. it is going to be so humid it will feel like the 90s and the actual temperature for tomorrow runs back up into the middle 90s. incredibly warm air in the region, not just here, it is pretty much across the country. your highs in the 80s and 90s.

texas triple digits, 100 on a huge stretch there. if you want to hide from this, todd, ashley, i don't think there is anywhere to go. >> todd: i want to hide, i don't like the everglades in connecticut. >> ashley: i love the humidity and heat, if you are safe about it and used to it. >> todd: she grew up in missouri. >> ashley: thank you. >> todd: public perception of the economy is lowest since 2008. new poll shows 69% of americans think it will get worse. another poll shows voters have more faith in republicans to take on gas prices, inflation and the economy. george logan, running for congress in connecticut, joins us. the nutmeg fifth, what are you hearing from voters?

>> what i'm hearing everyday is what we're hearing nationally, inflation, high gas prices, crime, increase in crime in our neighborhoods, government overreach in schools, that is what i'm hearing everyday. democrats here in connecticut try to deflect from issues i believe matter to the families and we'll continue to focus on those in connecticut fifth congressional district. >> todd: do voters like inflation reduction act to help democrats in the midterm? >> voters are not fooled. they are tired of the status quo and inflation reduction act will increase taxes and lead to higher gas prices. we know for sure taxes will hit families, hit businesses, we have entrepreneurs in the district and they are not happy with the massive spending

package, here they go again, democratic leadership going with the same game plan that has gotten us in the mess we are in right now. we need to replace those democratic leaders that have put us in this mess and they are not ones to get us out of it. >> todd: you are trying to replace one of the democrat individuals, the democrat is john hayes, tomorrow is the primary, all expectations, you will win for the republicans tomorrow. you are hoping to become first gop candidate to win a congressional race in two decades. you are a blue state up there, why do you think you can win tomorrow and come november? >> just to clarify, i received unanimous nomination from the party, i'm the guy. i worked hard in the 41 towns in the district, we have better message, connecticut republicans were going in the same page,

this went back to last year municipal election, i worked hard on relationships and we're on the same path and know what the prize is, the takeback the seat, 16 years, since we had a republican down in congress. we're going to change that and inspiring folks, make sure we have resources to get the message out and it is so important for folks that join the movement. send a republican from connecticut to washington and make national news, we will show that connecticut, new england, the tide is turning, the republican wave is here and we're part of it and making it happen. >> todd: are you finding a lot of democratic voters, specifically black voters are making the switch to you because they are tired of democratic party? >> moderate democrats, republicans are on board, 40%

unafilliated voters are tired of the left leaning democrats. when you go into the inner city and urban areas like danbury and where i live, the message is the same, whether in an inner city or suburban area, the difference is republicans are going into the communities with our message of family value, free enterprise, equal opportunity and seeing assistance and help at the national level. opened an ofls in my district for community outreach and we're having great success with getting activities and bringing folks to our fold. folks are looking for a change, we are the better alternative and we will win this election and flip the house of representative and get rid of nancy pelosi as speaker. folks are excited about that, we need better checks and balances

against the biden administration. >> todd: all eyes on the connecticut fifth. george logan, good luck to you. growing list of democrats distancing themselves from joe biden and the media is begging him not to run in 2024. they are not sold on vp harris either. >> she's been in the back. >> the primary is wide open and not just kamala harris's to take. >> ashley: is there anyone left in biden's corner? we'll ask joe concha next. [sleep app ] close your eyes. deep breath in. i mean, obviously, let it out. ghaa. yeah, i'm not really sure if this is working either.

>> todd: "new york times" urging president biden to give up his re-election dream claiming democrats need to nominate a different candidate in 2024. >> ashley: it may not be as simple as selecting vice president kamala harris to run. >> she should have been positioned powerfully and been a person that can lead and she's been in the back. >> the primary is wide open and it is not just kamala harris's to take. >> todd: joe concha joins us now. happy monday. your reaction to the latest iteration of jumping ship, we seem to talk about every two days or so. >> joe: it feels that way. i thought the inflation reduction act would change and turn everything around. as we saw on the sunday shows yesterday, it is speculation

about election that is not occurring for another 28 months. i can never remember an administration that has been in office 19 months having this much speculation around whether a president is running for re-election on how his vice president is not prepared for the job. buttigieg and the airline industry is worst shape we've seen under this transportation industry. gavin newsom and elizabeth warren, cory booker, beto o'rourke. the democratic party does not want joe biden to run. the problem is back fill ain't there and again the fact that we're talking about this shows how much disarray the democratic party is going into the midterms, guys. >> ashley: the cnn poll, cnn is

changing tune on the hunter biden story. take a listen. >> what about hunter? hunter under federal investigation, charges could be coming at any time. this is a real problem for the bidens, could he decide not to run for re-election given his son? >> ashley: oh, boy, so what do you -- i don't know what to say, joe, i will hand it to you. >> joe: yeah, ashley, here is the thing, the same cnn media correspondent said in 2022 about this network that fox continues to cover this story and ruin credibility by doing so, this story being the hunter biden story. he said the country had moved on in december 2020 from the hunter biden story. he said about fox, they want you to stay mad and stay tuned, called it a manufactured scandal to spark what aboutism, the

words of brian steltser when this story broke by the "new york post" and now he's pretending he never said these things and think it could be a problem for the president in 2024. welcome to the party, pal, we've been talking about this for sometime and don't pretend you tried to dismiss this story as manufactured scandal and now you have a new boss and he's trying to keep his job by talking about the story the way it should be talked about, which is yes, it is real. there is a federal investigation coming on and hunter biden could be a liability for the president. >> todd: i will go seinfeld, this is bizarre world should be eating and doing that segment at reggie's last hour james comer calling out the intel community for ignoring hunter biden's dealings in 2020. >> this guy is a crook, the intelligence community before

election says this is russian disinformation, another bad hit like the steele dossier, another bad hit and we need to make changes. >> todd: joe, presumably hunter biden will not get a contributor position, although don't put it past him. a number of contributors are numbers of the intel community. do those people remain contributors or per brian steltser, is this a big deal now? >> joe: i have a chapter in my book coming out next month. not just about the guy who ran the cia or the fbi, after they left their respective positions and went into the private sector, talking about james comey or john brennan or clapper, they went to cnn or

msnbc, showed how bias they are and you can't tell the difference between rachel maddow and chris hayes or stelser or comey when talking about the trump presidency, that should be disturbing, intelligence chiefs who are supposed to be unbiassed and apolitical showed to be anything but. when they had to make money, really poured it on and if that is people running our intelligence agency we have problems if they are looking at their position as something they can weaponize against a certain candidate. ashley, you love heat and humidity? wow. >> ashley: i'm weird, i'll admit. the los angeles times is urging joe biden to use executive power to declare a national climate

emergency, here is the quote from the piece. it is time biden adopted all hands on deck approach, little chance we'll look back and say the president did too much. this comes after they passed billions of dollars in inflation reduction act, what do you think of this? >> i'll be quick, until russia or india or china particularly does their part to fight climate change, then whatever we do on some sort of national level, it will have negligible impact. the world needs to come together, until they do, it will not change. >> todd: joe concha, thank you, have a great monday. how will hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, speaking of the spending bill, how will that money designated for

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>> ashley: democrats are

defending their massive $739 billion spending plan and pushing back against republicans who say the so-called inflation reduction act will raise taxes as we enter recession. >> todd: cheryl casone will break down what is in the legislation. >> cheryl: good morning, are americans under threat for higher taxes? one democrat says no. >> we are not raising taxes, we're reducing the deficit, we are taking money out of the economy, good news for inflation and dealing with cost centers that typical families are facing in healthcare and energy cost. >> cheryl: this senator saying no despite economists warning it would increase taxes as americans deal with sky high inflation, includes 369 building in spending on climate change, revenue projection and 15% minimum tax on corporation, the companies making billion or more

will be taxed more $124 billion from tax enforcement. the senator repeating the white house talking point taxes will not be raised. that deficit reduction was in the card, trump era programs not extended for this year, that was disingenuous. >> ashley: i pray for anyone about to get on an airplane. >> cheryl: we are trying to get home issue the flight-mare did continue. 14,582 delays. on saturday, 41% of jet blue flights were cancelled, 36 southwest, piling on to friday's cancellation.

same story, staffing shortage, severe storm, adding injury to insult for many, consider the fact several airlines had cut their summer schedule, to be clear, passengers out of chicago, laguardia, had the worst weekend and i was included in that, it was tough out there. >> todd: update on the bodega clerk who made headlines last month. >> cheryl: he was charged with murder for defending himself and was cleared. he left new york city, fearful for his life. jose alba is considering moving back to the dominican republic. francisco marte joined you last hour about this. >> out of control, we have so much violence all around that is very hard for us to control this situation. if we don't have any help from the da. >> cheryl: progressive new york

city bragg dropping the murder charge after pressure from mayor eric adams and of course a lot of public pressure. >> ashley: thanks. inciting crime in crime leadership over a thousand nypd officers have filed to leave the department this year and that is before getting their full pension, a 71% jump from last year. here is jason, a queens detective who left last month after 18 years in the nypd and joe, the founder of blue lives matter, nyc, with 16 years in law enforcement. jason, i spoke to you couple days after you retired, i want to specify you were able to get your full pension whenever you retired, but that is not the case for a lot of people. what does it say to the city and department that officers are leaving early, potentially

leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table in retirement money, what does that say to the city and the moral of police officers? >> you are losing qualified and experienced, so much when it comes to that kind of stuff. you have people leaving the job for places they want you. they want you to be on the cop on the street and arrest the bad guy, but here in the city, i don't think they are going toward that and steering away from it, the way you have to police in new york and you are putting victims and cops in jeopardy. >> ashley: joe, talk to you about the diaphragm law and bring up the topic of the mma fighter we saw last week helped subdue a potential suspect. he was sitting on his chest. what would have happened to an nypd officer under the new diaphragm law if they were to do something simple as you are seeing right there? >> it is progressive city

council says, they would have went after that officer and probably be on the front page of the paper. they would go after them to be arrested. any type of fight, you end up on the ground, you are trying to subdue the individual. that guy, the mma fighter did nothing wrong, to get the bad guy off the street, they had to use body weight to subdue them until the officers arrive. these are laws that need to be thrown out. couple weeks ago, the 16 year old put an officer in the head lock, god forbid that officer did that, they would be making their life living hell every single day. >> ashley: jason, as far as officers risking everything, their jobs, their lives, their careers, their family life, what incentive do officers, especially nypd officers have right now when this

ever-revolving door of crime and the criminals keep getting out and back on the street? they will be out on the street before the paperwork is even done, what incentive is there to become a police officer in new york city? >> jason: none. years ago people would say take the test issue it's a great job. i wouldn't encourage people to take this job anymore. what you just saw, when i was on the job and just came on the job, you would do what you could to get that person under, they don't go by rules, your job is to get them cuffed and into the car. now you have cops that have to second guess every move because of risk of losing everything you worked for, losing your life and then you have other people videotaping you doing this, rather than helping you and watching a cop get beat up literally trying to do his job and it is a safety concern that

is really bad. >> ashley: it is shall had, major crime in new york city, 2021 versus 2022, up 36.8%. obviously, there is no end in sight with this and there needs to be something done, everyone would admit something needs to be done with bail reform. jason and joe, thank you for being with us, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> ashley: florida congressional candidate cory mills is here next. >> steve: hold on todd and ashley, it is mobile monday. todd, regular? >> todd: with milk, no sugar, no cream. >> ashley: white coffee. >> steve: thank you very much, fox and friends run on dunkin. on "fox and friends" in nine

minutes and 27 seconds, democrats passed massive spend and tax bill without single republican vote. senator mike lee will tell us what the gop is saying to make sure this bill doesn't go anywhere. it looks like not even illegal migrants want to come to new york city with the latest bus from texas arriving mostly empty, why did they jump off? the answer will surprise you. congresswoman claudia tinney reacts and we have newt gingrich and pawn star's rick harrison and lara trump. and ainsley earhardt will dive into the life of tim scott and his relationship with donald trump and a potential presidential or vice presidential run is on the table. that all kicks off just about eight and a half minutes from now on mobile monday. todd and ashley back in a

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>> todd: republicans are saying that voters will get their reconvention in november during midterms elections after harris made the tiebreaking votes for democrats to push through $739 billion spending bill. corey is hoping to run for congress to representing the state of florida. thanks for joining us live. what is in this bill 369 billion for climate is change. 313 billion for 15% corporate minimum stacks and then 123 billion for irs tax enforcement. so no republicans voted for this and then the democrats claim that that this is going to help reduce inflation but even some democrats are saying that's not going to be for a long time. what do you think? >> well, i will say right now the democrats are very, very talented when it comes to the

naming of bills. like the american rescue plan which did anything but rescue americans. look, this is nothing more than inflationary and fiscally irresponsible spending. they claimed in the beginning there would be no taxes on everyone earning. medium income of 5 and 75,000. talk about 50,000 new irs agents when i talk to constituents in florida's seventh district gosh do you know what i would really love to have that's right 87,000 more irs agents. no, what we need to have is 87,000 more border patrol agents who secure or border. need 87,000 more military because of our recruitment failures under the biden administration. what we need is 87,000 more officers on the street to stop these soft on crime policies the democrats have put in place the increase criminality. the bottom line is dems continue to claim this won't raise taxes.

the "wall street journal" the on sis. not only raise taxes but additional inflation on increased inflation high of 40 years. >> todd: are you worried that the law abiding taxpayer who plays by the rules will get audited by 87,000 new agents are sitting around oh, what do we do? we got to do something. let's audit people. >> i think all of this you can remember under the oklahoma city obamaadministration is that completely targeted. you have to look at the fact $257 billion which is lecially the green new deal down payment. $250 billion which is actually being set aside for loans for solar companies and if all of us remember during the obama days the solyndra debacle billion dollars to go to solyndra only see it bankrupt a year and a half later we know this doesn't work. i'm worried about the political targeting we will sees a a result of this. >> ashley: i want to talk about this, china has ramped up military exercises around taiwan

in response to pelosi's visit you are army combat vet and former dod adviser to president trump. how do you think we should be responding? >> well, again, i think that we have to understand that the united states have entered a strategic ambiguity when it came to the one china policy. i think we do recognize the fact that taiwan is independent state regards to independent governing it does operate aton newly already. we do have the ability to arm taiwan as we see fit and strengthen their military exercises. we do need to find a way to look at diplomatic deescalation. at the same time we need decouple ourselves from any type of trade or any type of dependence on reliability if you will on china. we have to acknowledge that they're an adversarial nation. they are the greatest existential threat. as ambassador bachus talked about taiwan is the one thing china will go it war over. we don't need to see continue interventionism which we already

recognize taiwan is under the government auspices of china. a way to look at peace through strength and decoupling ourselves from china and from russia when it comes to relynn's and independence on ourselves. so i there is ways that we can go ahead and try to look at this but we have to show peace through strength. >> todd: got to run my friend. "fox & friends" starts right now. thank you, mr. mills. ♪ >> vice president votes affirmative and the bill is passed. [cheers] >> democrats sweeping tax, health and climate package pass. >> it takes a special kind of stupid to raise taxes during a recession. >> do you think president biden is the best candidate? >> the left's reluctance to back president biden on 2024 on full display. >> my focus is on this november. >> are you encouraging him to run again? >> i'm encouraging him to focus. >> okay. tell them -- >> -- mayor eric adams is slamming texas governor agreeing act. >> this is